In the vast wilderness outside Guancheng, the sky is filled with smoke and dust, accompanied by the spiritual mist formed by magic, and there are also golden lights rendering from the east, which are the rising sun rising on the horizon.
The hot midsummer sun quickly evaporates the night dew, and the dazzling light fills the blue sky, illuminating the sky and the earth, causing many soldiers on both sides to squint their eyes...
In the city's tall gate tower, protected by heavy streams of light, Hu Zhen's heart trembled when he saw this. Choosing this morning to attack would be a backlight for the coalition forces, but it would be unfavorable for the 100,000 Xiliang troops to face the light, which could easily lead to misjudgment.
, and it is extremely detrimental to the crossbowman's accuracy and loss of eyesight...
The enemy's generals and staff have considered all aspects carefully, and it is difficult to tell that they are new princes who have only been rising for a few years... This blocking battle is not easy to fight, but fortunately it only takes ten days.
"Commander..." his subordinates reminded in a low voice, glancing at the middle and high-level generals such as Li Ji, Guo Si, Fan Chou who were still waiting behind them.
"You all can go your own way." Hu Zhen straightened up and raised his hands, showing a sense of majesty.
Since the mission had already been assigned, the generals responded with a roar, their armor jingled, and they went down to organize defenses everywhere, only communicating with Taoist priests.
It has to be said that with the Taoist contact to convey information and orders, no matter which party it is, the efficiency and execution will immediately go up to a higher level.
The footsteps of the coalition forces were even closer, and could be heard only three miles away.
Accompanied by the rising dust from the loess, the sound of flags and booming footsteps shook the earth, the sound of armor clashing, the sound of orders, the sound of horse hooves...
There was not much order in the numerous sounds, but only the awe-inspiring fighting spirit, which together with the low war drums that filled the entire huge battlefield, shook everyone's heart.
If there are more than 10,000 soldiers, they are densely packed; if there are more than 100,000 soldiers, they are boundless.
Looking down from the city with a height of more than ten meters, these enemies who came from far away to conquer the west are like ants, but they are not rogue bandits, they are all regular troops.
Most of the Kwantung princes inherited the local treasury. Except for Cao's army of 100,000 in khaki, most of the rest retained the red uniforms made by the Han officials. The smoke and dust were slightly visible through it, and the whole field was a fiery red as far as the eye could see, as if it was about to burn the wilderness.
"Shout" The huge formation stopped with a low voice and made fine adjustments, but the huge pressure was still coming.
The densely packed numbers and the mighty murderous intent soaring into the sky. Seeing this, the soldiers all turned pale, and the officers and soldiers were all silent - with some common sense, everyone knows that not all of the five hundred thousand are piled up, which will only make people despise the level of command.
Even if there are Taoist priests conveying information and orders, and commanding more than 100,000 troops, this is the path to death. The most basic common sense in the art of war is not to attack too many troops at once. This must take turns to attack the city.
It's just that they can all recall it in their memory - when was the last time a battle of hundreds of thousands occurred in front of Hulao Pass?
"The Chu-Han struggle for hegemony in Guanxi, the confrontation in Guandong..." Li Jie whispered, judging that the formation had reached one hundred thousand, and it was obvious that he was going to kill his own side in a round-robin battle. He took a deep breath while thinking about it, and his eyes were as cold as a lone wolf: "
Come on, Kwantung Army... teach you that this is the Hulao of Kansai."
He paused and raised his voice to the waiting commanders nearby: "Go down and prepare, raise the oil pan, mount the rolling wood, and set up the crossbow array... Master Liu and several Taoist priests please prepare the array..."
"Woo——"
Long horns sounded from the military camps far and near. The southeast wind blew, accompanied by huge smoke and dust. The sound was like waves, spreading across the front of Guancheng, penetrating the depth of the equally long city, and returning to the valley behind Guancheng...
Later, the gates of hundreds of camps were opened, and the sound of rolling wheels sounded from all directions, especially from the Cao, Sun, Liu and old Yuan camps near the front line.
Create battlefield cover.
"Here we come!" When the generals saw this, their eyes shrank. Hu Zhen's expression remained as usual, and he only clenched his hands in his sleeves.
As a qualified commander, he paid close attention to the enemy. Without the Taoist priest's temporary report, he had previously detected the construction of siege equipment in the enemy camp. Even if the spell concealed the manufacturing details in the camp, the huge amount of wood consumption could not be concealed.
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In the hilly area to the south, there are towering trees that are as thick as several people can hold them. They are difficult to damage with a knife or axe, but they were cut down in large numbers by the high-speed water blade magic. They were dismantled on site and shipped to large trucks. In only four days, a large area of virgin forest was directly destroyed.
Cut off a layer and retreated hundreds of meters in width...
Hu Zhen had already been mentally prepared. The only difficulty was to determine which ones the enemy had concentrated on.
Large mobile combat equipment such as ladders, rams, shields, archery towers, and trebuchets...the quantity of each type forms a different combination and determines the enemy's next offensive.
According to secret contacts, the information from the second battalion of Cao Cao and Sun Jian was that the ladders and arrow towers were all shared in single projects and built in clusters. This shows that they were attacked by ants under the suppression of arrow rain.
But the credibility is very poor. How could Liu Bei's arrangement not guard against these two people?
"Don't worry in normal times. Guancheng has been established for four hundred years and has sufficient response to various offensives. However, the newly emerged Taoist product Ye Huolei is even feared by real people. According to the secret report, Xuzhou defeated Cao Ying.
This thing, this kind of siege weapon combined with the old siege equipment is enough to create too many possibilities."
Fifteen hundred paces away, the fog began to lift, and towering and narrow military equipment appeared at the front of the military formation. They stopped setting stakes, and the soldiers ran to twist the throwing arms, lower the throwing baskets, load the bombs, and count the marks.
Hu Zhen clenched his hand: "It's a group of trebuchets. He wants to focus fire remotely to break down a city wall, and orders the rapid-fire trebuchets to counterattack——"
This distance has entered the range of influence of the Hulao Pass Formation. The fog is dispelled by the Taiping Dao spell, but this distance is far beyond the effective range of the Rhubarb Crossbow's 1,200 steps. The shot is also weak and weak. Perhaps only the most powerful
Tao skills and the same trebuchet can destroy the opponent, but Tao skills cannot be consumed in this area, only attack against attack
"yes"
The Xiliang Army was well prepared and quickly loaded up the trebuchet, and accompanied the school officer to direct the ruler to adjust the scale, look at the mountain, and then look to the observer on the tower to determine the direction and load the smallest size stone bullet.
Seeing the inspecting general's eyes widening, as if unhappy, he quickly explained: "This is the limit of distance, we can only pretend to be this, no matter how big it is, we can't hit it..."
"...Then let go quickly"
The long log swinging arm of the trebuchet is like the effect of a long whip pulling out the air, driving the end piece of cowhide rope to throw out the calibrated bomb at almost the speed of sound. As it breaks away from the basket, the stone bullet passes over the ten-meter-high city wall.
Then it drew a gray shadow trajectory in the air, and suddenly it smashed into the coalition formation with blood, jumping and rolling into a small path of blood. The cheers of the Xiliang army rose high and then stopped abruptly.
"Shoot" was the same command, and suddenly a huge red meteor rose from in front of the coalition formation, rushing through the air with a sharp whistle, and the red light illuminated the dull face of Sergeant Dong on the city... It was so big, how could it be shot so hard?
Far?
"It's Ye Huolei, use Taoism to counteract it quickly." In this situation, it is impossible for the trebuchet to intercept it by chance. The Taoist priests near the projectile immediately shouted.
Although he was a little in a hurry, he organized ten spell attacks in a short period of time, only to see Tao spells of different colors, namely meteors, intercepted two hundred feet away.
With a soft "chi" sound, the meteor puffed out and accelerated rapidly, avoiding the attack... At the moment when everyone was stunned, Liu Zhenren made a move and covered it with a fire net.
"boom--"
Ye Huolei intercepted it in mid-air, triggered an explosion in advance, and turned into a ball of thunder and fire in mid-air. A large number of iron pieces were seen sweeping across the city like a rainstorm.
Suddenly hundreds of soldiers screamed, blood and flesh flying everywhere, and some were still alive for a while, rolling on the city.
The general turned a blind eye to these tragic scenes. He just looked around and saw that the main body of the city wall had the foundation of the magic circle. Only a layer of spiritual light was aroused by the shock wave of the spiritual energy explosion, and some traces appeared. He was relieved.
Three miles away, Qianqian stared at the wall of the city and instantly captured this aura. Her clear eyes flashed with divine wisdom. She calculated the moment and transmitted the sound to the trebuchet team. Various scale parameters were unfolded in a targeted manner...
On the city, Master Liu was looking back and talking to Li Cui: "This is Ye Huolei's weakness. With complete magic protection, there is nothing to fear. The enemy only has a hundred trebuchets in front of the formation. We can deal with them more than enough. General, although
Li couldn't help but nodded, and suddenly his eyes widened: "That side..."
"Huh--" A strong wind blew by, revealing the second row, the third row, the fourth row, the fifth faction... a huge matrix of trebuchets.
"This is impossible" Master Liu hissed, his face turned livid, and he no longer had the demeanor of a real man.
How many trebuchets did Ye Qing build?
Where did all these craftsmen come from?
The hub of the trebuchet is a complex metal-wood structure. Is it possible that soldiers who only know how to hold a sword can produce it in large quantities? This is absolutely impossible.
At the city gate, the special envoy's expression also changed greatly: "They are all precision parts, this leaf... Liu Bei has prepared thousands of core precision parts in advance, damn... How long will he prepare for going to Luo? And the depth of this spreading projection.
, the furthest is only two thousand steps, and he also improved the trebuchet in the lower earth world."
Hu Zhen couldn't understand it at all. He just looked at the trebuchet units with a pale face: "These are all trebuchets. Could it be that they are all throwing meteors, fire and thunder?"
If this is the case, we can only wait for death without any resistance.
"Of course not," the special envoy said attentively: "It is absolutely impossible that there are not so many Lei Huolei, but as long as there are one percent of Ye Huolei..."
"Even if it's just an oil cup...ah, damn it." Having foreseen what would happen a few seconds later, the envoy could no longer maintain his composure, and cold sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead.
A clear command of "shoot" resounded across the battlefield.
"Boom boom boom..."
Hundreds of thousands of red meteors rose from the enemy's long front line. At this time, they all pierced the sky. One after another, they seemed to be slow and fast parabolic trajectories. Countless red light arcs crisscrossed past each other, forming a chaotic network, which made
Just one look at it makes people dizzy, and even more terrifying...
The fireworks rose to the highest point and fell like a shower of meteors.